The newest entry into the "Alien" franchise started by Ridley Scott is coming to us from Fede Álvarez, the filmmaker who brought us 2013's "Evil Dead" and 2016's "Don't Breathe." The film, which will be released on Hulu, is set to star Cailee Spaeny. Though we don't have any information yet about what role she'll play or what the story of the film is, we do know that she'll have a co-star in Isabela Merced, according to Deadline.
Merced recently co-starred as Juliet Capulet in the comedy film "Rosaline," a re-telling of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" from the perspective of Romeo's former lover. She also appeared in the 2022 remake of "Father of the Bride" with Andy Garcia, played Izabella in "Transformers: The Last Knight," and Rachel Cooper in the Netflix film "Sweet Girl" starring Jason Momoa. On top of all that, she voiced the role of Lucky Prescott...
Merced recently co-starred as Juliet Capulet in the comedy film "Rosaline," a re-telling of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" from the perspective of Romeo's former lover. She also appeared in the 2022 remake of "Father of the Bride" with Andy Garcia, played Izabella in "Transformers: The Last Knight," and Rachel Cooper in the Netflix film "Sweet Girl" starring Jason Momoa. On top of all that, she voiced the role of Lucky Prescott...
- 3/2/2023
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
When it comes to movies by one-and-done directors, there is no greater achievement than Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter," one of the most singular American films ever made. Nowadays, we'd probably pitch it as somewhere between a pastoral fable and a proto-slasher, but when it was released in 1955 it was a vision so unique that neither critics nor audiences knew what to make of it. It became such a monstrous flop that Laughton never directed another film.
Thankfully, time has been extremely kind to "The Night of the Hunter," and Laughton's neglected masterpiece is now receiving the recognition it deserves. In this year's Sight and Sound Top 100 list of the greatest films of all time, it vaulted 38 places from 63rd in the 2012 edition to joint 25th alongside "Au Hasard Balthazar." It didn't even make the list in the previous decade's poll, so at this rate of critical reappraisal,...
Thankfully, time has been extremely kind to "The Night of the Hunter," and Laughton's neglected masterpiece is now receiving the recognition it deserves. In this year's Sight and Sound Top 100 list of the greatest films of all time, it vaulted 38 places from 63rd in the 2012 edition to joint 25th alongside "Au Hasard Balthazar." It didn't even make the list in the previous decade's poll, so at this rate of critical reappraisal,...
- 12/8/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
by Jamie Zaccharia, MoreHorror.com
In Night of the Hunter, serial killer and reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) meets bank robber (and soon to be executed criminal) Ben Harper (Peter Graves) in prison and learns that he has stolen and hidden $10,000. After some dubious sleep talk, Powell hatches a plan to marry Ben’s widow Willa (Shelley Winters) and discover the hiding place of the money by secretly interrogating her children, John (Billy Chapin) and Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce).
Mitchum was so unbelievably terrifying that just one of those looks would send me running in the other direction. The religious aspects of the movie are what made it work. No one is ignorant of how religious fanaticism can make men crazy, and Mitchum plays that sort of man with the right amount of subtlety and persuasion. Even just looking at the tattoos of “love” and “hate” on his hands gives me the shivers.
In Night of the Hunter, serial killer and reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) meets bank robber (and soon to be executed criminal) Ben Harper (Peter Graves) in prison and learns that he has stolen and hidden $10,000. After some dubious sleep talk, Powell hatches a plan to marry Ben’s widow Willa (Shelley Winters) and discover the hiding place of the money by secretly interrogating her children, John (Billy Chapin) and Pearl (Sally Jane Bruce).
Mitchum was so unbelievably terrifying that just one of those looks would send me running in the other direction. The religious aspects of the movie are what made it work. No one is ignorant of how religious fanaticism can make men crazy, and Mitchum plays that sort of man with the right amount of subtlety and persuasion. Even just looking at the tattoos of “love” and “hate” on his hands gives me the shivers.
- 10/26/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
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